I got Phlegmatic. Try it out! 😊
I got Black Bile - Melancholic.
I also got Black Bile.
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Blood - Sanguine
Did anyone else get blood? Seems rare!
Hey, who wants to do a medical history lesson?
So, the reason the ‘blood’ personality type, sanguine, is less common than the others is because it indicates balance in the three humours that were usually held responsible for sickness. It supposedly indicates someone energetic, cheerful, and outgoing, lacking the influence of an unusually high level of one of the other humours on their personality. Blood was considered the ‘base’ humour, by and large, meaning that being sanguine in temperament was believed to be the best adjusted personality type. Black bile, associated with ‘cold and dry’, was imagined to cause dehydration and shivers in extremely high levels, and if someone had high levels at homeostasis, it could cause a ‘cold and dry’ personality–melancholic, or depressive. Yellow bile, ‘hot and dry’, was believed to be responsible for fevers, liver problems, and aggression, resulting in a choleric (aggressive/violent) temperament. Phlegm, ‘cold and wet’, (not the same thing as what we call ‘phlegm’ today) was believed to cause everything from tumors to rheumatism, and an easy-going, somewhat apathetic temperament–phlegmatic. This meant that you could get a real actual ‘diagnosis’ based on your personality, because a physician might assess what humour was out of balance based on which one was ‘in command’ under normal circumstances.
Humourism is weird, folks.
(Source: dailypsychologyfacts, via ultrafacts)
